I don't much like looking back.

Somebody once said, you have to wait 20 years before you can tell if a movie's any good or not so that's probably true.

I never do, I don't even go to the retrospectives.

Well, we're in show business, and I have been making a living in this business a long time and inevitably it means taking what it is that you've done and hopefully you're showing it to a lot of people who like it.

I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort.

I've always wanted to do a boxing movie.

If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version.

I tend not to look back. It's confusing.

You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.

It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation.

Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall.

I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.

Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.

I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.

I get a great high from writing.

I think it's fair to say I've always been a boxing fan.

I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.

I always say the next one is my favorite.

Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.

Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility.

I don't much like looking back.

I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.

My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.

For a startling period of my life, I reported the Troubles in Ireland for the BBC. I lived in Dublin and was called out to all sorts of incidents that, if taken together, add up to a war - bombings, assassinations, riots, shootings, robberies, jailbreaks, kidnappings, and sieges.

It sounds so simple, but if you just be yourself, you're different than anyone else.

Oh, my gosh, I've never seen a film unless, you know, if I have to go and do ADR, loop-loop. But I don't watch after. I'm too critical.

The summer before my third year of law school, I worked at a law firm in Washington, D.C. I turned 25 that July, and on my birthday, my father happened to be playing in a local jazz club called Pigfoot and invited me to join him. I hadn't spent a birthday with him since I was 3, but I agreed.

For me it was sort of career suicide to work in color, but I did it because I perceived myself from an early stage to be interested in seasonality - the changing of the seasons - that's what I deeply loved.

I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

You really just have to love the process. I can't tell you the amount of film sets I've been on where people are talking about Oscars in the middle of the production. It happens all the time.

I'm not interested in owning a bunch of driveways.

If I do something, I want to be the best. And one of the best things you can be is a Victoria's Secret Angel; for me, that's always been a goal.

Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.

You have to stick to what you love and purse that at all costs. Don't choose money first; it won't make you happy.

Many people think making a film about history... about war... about the Holocaust, it might be heavy, dramatic and traumatic. I don't see things like that... you can find irony everywhere. It's how I look at life.

Nothing happens by chance my friend... No such thing as luck.

I have a lot of energy, and I move around a lot in my club act.

I did parallel entrepreneurship, which was very hard to do. It was hard to keep your head straight and know which ideas were with which company.

ABC forbids political activity by journalists.

To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.

I just don't want people to think I'm too sweet of a boy; and little miss angel boy, because I'm going to get caught doing somebody horrible.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

People say that the best part about doing animation is that you don't have to dress up to go to work, but I don't believe that. I dress up to go to work. I dress up for an airplane. I think it's just focusing your skillset, focusing on your voice and the comedy.

The comics I hate are thieves. Nothing's more disgusting than a guy who steals another person's ideas and tries to claim them as his own.

Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.

I love spaghetti. And I like to cook spaghetti. And I used to eat it every day. I weighed thirty pounds more than I do now. You can't - you can't do that.